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This week's awards: ERA's Community Scale Rural Bioenergy Facilities Project, Fort Lupton Microgrid Project, and Microgrids for Community Affordability, Resilience, and Energy Decarbonization (CARED) ; LDES Demonstrating LDES for Military Installation Energy Resilience Project

As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) today opened applications for up to $400 million to spur innovative, community-focused, clean energy solutions for rural and remote communities across the United States.

This week's awards: Mine Land's A Model for Transition: Coal-to-Solar in West Virginia; ERA's Chignik Hydroelectric Dam and Water Source Project; ERA's Hopi Nation Community Solar Project; ERA Grant's New Stuyahok Solar-Battery; IDP's Syngas Production from Recycled Chemical Byproduct Streams

OCED issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to fund up to $1.3 billion to catalyze investments in transformative carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies.

This week's awards: CC Demos' Project Tundra; ERA Grant's Rural Rebuild and Reconductor, Transmission Line Rebuild; IDP's Hydrogen-Ready Direct Reduced Iron Plant and Electric Melting Furnace Installation; Mine Land's Lewis Ridge, Mineral Basin

OCED issued a Notice of Intent (NOI) to fund up to $1.8 billion for the design, construction, and operation of mid- and large-scale commercial direct air capture (DAC) facilities and infrastructure scaling platforms.

Six teams were selected for creating cost-effective recycling technologies for U.S. wind energy systems.

This week's awards: ERA Phase 2 Prize Winners, ERA's Grid Access and Resiliency; IDP's Polyethylene Terephthalate Recycling Decarbonization , IDP's Iron Electric Induction Conversion; CC Pilots' Carbon Capture Pilot at Vicksburg Containerboard Mill

This week's awards: DACHubs South Texas; IDP's Flexible Fuel Electric Hybrid Glass; CC Pilot's Cane Run; CC FEEDs' Four Corners; ERA's Cost-Effective Solar in Western Maine, Reliability and Cost Effectiveness in Rural Areas, Whole-Home Heat Pump Solutions

Each of the companies will receive approximately $1.15 million for Phase II SBIR awards.